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Middle Eastern Cinema
Film from across the Middle East, including an Iranian tradition that turned censorship into a formal method — children as protagonists, documentary ambiguity, endings withheld.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
A Separation
Asghar Farhadi · 2011
Close Up
Tiziano Sossi · 2012
Where Is The Friend's House?
Abbas Kiarostami · 1987
Wadjda
Haifaa al-Mansour · 2012
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